| Name: |
Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter) |
| Model: |
F-35A (CTOL, Air Force)
F-35B (STOVL, Marines)
F-35C (Carrier-based, Navy) |
| Purpose: |
Strike Fighter |
| General Characteristics: |
- Crew: 1
- Length: 50 ft 6 in (15.37 m)
- Wingspan:
35 ft 0 in (10.65 m)
- Height: 17 ft 4 in (5.28 m)
- Wing area: 459.6 ft² (42.7 m²)
- Empty weight: 26,000 lb (12 t)
- Loaded weight: 42,000 lb (19 t)
- Max
takeoff weight: 50,000 lb (23 t)
- Powerplant: 1× Pratt & Whitney
F135 afterburning turbofan,
(177 kN)
- Secondary (High Performance), discontinued in current
budget proposal:
1 × General
Electric/Rolls-Royce F136 afterburning turbofan 178 kN
thrust
- Lift fan (STOVL): 1 × Rolls-Royce Lift System in
conjunction with either F135 or F136 power plant 18,000 lbf
(80 kN) thrust)
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| Performance: |
- Maximum
speed: Mach 1.6
(1,200 mph, 2000 km/h)
- Cruise
speed: Mach (mph, km/h)
- Range:
620 miles (1000 km)
- Service
ceiling: 48,000 ft (15 000 m)
- Rate
of climb: ~40,000 ft/min (200
m/s)
- Wing
loading: 91.4 lb/ft² (446 kg/m²)
- Thrust/weight:
0.88
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| Armament: |
- 1 × GAU-12/U 25
mm cannon
- Up to six AIM-120
AMRAAM, AIM-9X
Sidewinder or AIM-132
ASRAAM internally or two air-to-air and two air-to-ground weapons
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